PHNOM PENH: Cambodia has recorded last year that about 1,400 Cambodians were newly infected with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), which causes AIDS, according to a National AIDS Authority’s report on Monday.
“About four people become infected with HIV every day,” the report said.
It said new HIV infections had dropped by 91 percent since the peak of the HIV epidemic in 1996, but the pace of decline had slowed down to only 33 percent since 2010.
“Cambodia has made strong progress toward ending the AIDS epidemic,” Ieng Mouly, chairman of the National AIDS Authority, said in a recent press statement.
According to the report, by the end of 2022, there were some 76,000 people living with HIV (PLHIV) and 86 percent of them were aware of their HIV status, while around 11,000 people did not know that they were living with HIV.
“About 64,931 PLHIV were accessing antiretroviral therapy and it translated that 99 percent of PLHIV who knew their status were accessing treatment,” the report said.
In Cambodia, the first HIV infections were detected and diagnosed in 1991 and the first AIDS case was found in 1993.
